[7] In 1798 the Cisalpine Republic suppressed the monastery,[8] which was partly sold to private individuals, while the church was transformed into a parish.

Next to the structure there was a massive bell tower (of which some remains are preserved), instead, to the south, the church was connected to the monastery through a small cloister, which overlooked the chapter house, currently occupied by the sacristy.

The interior of the building also underwent drastic changes: under the medieval wooden roof, vaults were made, which significantly lowered the ceiling height of the church, but which allowed the preservation, in the attic, fragments of 15th-century frescoes.

[11] Evidence of the original Romanesque church are the four the mullioned windows of the central nave[12] and the two mullioned windows resurfaced during some restorations in the small cloister, one of which reuses a Lombard capital, perhaps coming from a previous building,[13] above which is walled a small male bust in stone of the Roman age.

[14] Inside, above the altar (made in 1708) there is a large canvas by Giovanni Battista Sassi dated 1713 and depicting Saint Bernard kneeling at the feet of the Virgin.